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This month, Windows NT Magazine highlights network interoperability. We’ll fill you in on Babylon, Microsoft’s newest enterprise interoperability server, which replaces the company’s BackOffice SNA Server product. You’ll find out how to successfully use Windows CE with Windows 2000 (Win2K) and Windows NT networks. We’ll also cover the basics of Single sign-on (SSO) and provide SSO solutions for Win2K and NT.


Windows NT Magazine Chooses Best of Show at MEC99

By John Green, 11/16/1999

Web Windows NT Magazine identified five Best of Show products that solved a business need in a particularly elegant manner with feature-rich implementations and intuitive appeal.

Ask Dr. Bob Your Windows 2000 Questions

By Bob Chronister, 11/15/1999

Learn about name conflicts, capacity planning, application-installation failure, Win2K installaton removal, the Kernel not found error message, NTFS maintenance, and more.

Movetree

By Mark Minasi, 11/15/1999

Learn to use a handy tool that lets you move objects between Actice Directory domains in a forest.

Directing IPX Broadcast Traffic

By Sean Daily, 11/15/1999

Discover how to modify the values of the DisableDialinNetbios and NetBiosRouting Registry subkeys to solve common IPX-based RAS problems.

Questions, Answers, and Tips About SQL Server

By Karen Watterson, 11/15/1999

Karen and Brian discuss User DSNs vs. System DSNs, scripts that let you view temporary table structures, enhancements in OLAP Services 7.5, how to disable update triggers, and SQL ...

More NT Command-Script Techniques

By Michael Otey, 11/15/1999

The author shares more command-line tips that will add power to your scripts.

A Tour Through Beta 3

By Michael D. Reilly, 11/15/1999

Take a tour of Win2K's MMC, where you'll find some new tools, as well as new locations for your favorite NT tools.

Offline Files

By Mark Minasi, 11/15/1999

Win2K Pro's new caching feature provides speed, availability, reliability, and laptop support.

Virtual Memory Tuning

By John D. Ruley, 11/15/1999

Discover how much RAM your system needs for Win2K Pro, and explore the performance effects of moving your Win2K Pro system's virtual memory paging file.

Fax Servers and Add-ons That Work with Microsoft Exchange Server

By John Green, 11/15/1999

The lab extends its coverage of Exchange Server add-ons and throws in fax servers to boot.

ClusterX 2.0

By Jonathan Cragle, 11/15/1999

NT high-availability application software.

AutoInstall 1.17

By Tom Iwanski, 11/15/1999

Ease application deployment.

NetApp F740

By Mark Weitz, 11/15/1999

A fast, high-capacity multiprotocol file server.

DLT 8000

By John Green, 11/15/1999

Get high-end server backup performance.

VXA-1

By John Green, 11/15/1999

Promising extraordinary restore reliability.

Beat Your NIC Bottleneck Blues

By Jonathan Cragle, 11/15/1999

NSI Software's Balance Suite for Windows NT 2.71 and IP Metrics Software's NIC Express 2.0 let systems administrators combine two or more LAN connections to provide a ...

Exterminator Tools

By Jonathan Chau, 11/15/1999

Networks of any size need an antivirus program. This review narrows the field so that you can make an informed purchase.

Realtime NT

By David Chernicoff, 11/15/1999

The Lab Guys wonder whether a market exists for a realtime version of NT.

Inside Win2K Scalability Enhancements, Part 2

By Mark Russinovich, 11/15/1999

Win2K helps the kernel scale more effectively and helps applications use processing cycles more efficently than in NT 4.0.

More Bad Computing Law

By Mark Minasi, 11/15/1999

Learn about the Y2K Act and UCITA, and find out how to protect yourself from antiuser computer laws.

Synchronizing Windows CE

By David Chernicoff, 11/15/1999

Windows CE now synchronizes with other Windows OSs. Microsoft needs to provide Windows CE synchronization with non-Windows OSs and encourage developers to create applications ...

The Year of the Messenger

By Barrie Sosinsky, 11/15/1999

Exchange Server's growth has validated the importance of messaging applications in enterprise computing.

What Happened to Alpha?

By Barrie Sosinsky, 11/15/1999

The Alpha processor's considerable performance edge over competitive Intel microprocessors made the processor significant.

1999 in Review

By Mark Smith, 11/12/1999

Mark Smith takes a look back at the events that shaped the IT industry in 1999.

Reader Challenge

By Kathy Ivens, 11/12/1999

Solve this month's Windows NT problem and get the change to win $100 or a copy of one of the author's books about NT. Prior month's winner is announced at bottom of page.

Troubleshooting Synchronization Errors

By L. J. Locher, 11/12/1999

How to resolve partial synchronization errors.

Trusted and Trusting Domains in NT 4.0

By L. J. Locher, 11/12/1999

Enhance security and optimize performance in your enterprise by gaining a better understanding of trust relationships.

Deciphering Cryptography

By Gary C. Kessler, 11/12/1999

Decrypt the basics of cryptography, discover the different cryptographic algorithms, and decode how NT uses cryptography.

Top 4 NT Freeware Utilities

By Drew Robb, 11/12/1999

Discover a handful of free NT utilities that make your job a little easier and solve common problems.

Exchange 2000 Server and Active Directory

By Tony Redmond, 11/12/1999

Exchange 2000 Server's integration with Win2K and AD gives you much to think about. Here's the background you need to begin your deployment.

Single Sign-On

By Sharon E. Sankar, 11/11/1999

Learn about SSO, including solutions for Win2K and NT.

Reader to Reader - December 1999

By Readers, 11/02/1999

Share your NT discoveries, comments, problems, solutions, and experiences with products and reach out to other Windows NT Magazine readers (including Microsoft).

Windows Scripting Host 2.0

By Bob Wells, 11/02/1999

WSH has undergone many improvements that make writing, editing, and debugging scripts easy - even using multiple languages.

Configuring VPNs

By Richard Brackett, 11/02/1999

Use IPSec and GRE to send secure information over VPNs.

Networking Terms and Technologies

By Richard Brackett, 11/02/1999

These networking-related terms provide some basic information necessary to configure routers for IP and to implement secure VPN links using IPSec and GRE.

Windows CE Interoperability with Windows 2000 and NT

By Christa Anderson, 10/29/1999

Learn why Windows CE is a choise in Win2K and NT networks and how you can use two Windows CE devices -WBTs and H/PCs- on your network.

Terminal Services and Terminal Servers

By Christa Anderson, 10/29/1999

An overview of terminal services and how they relate to Terminal Server.

Inside Babylon

By Michael Otey, 10/29/1999

Preview Babylon's most significant new features and where Babylon leverages existing SNA Server technology, and discover what pieces of the enterprise-interoperability puzzle ...


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